Why Do Americans Continue to Deny Climate Change?

Submitted by Jur on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 16:13

Journalist Mark Hertsgaard argues the United States is the only advanced industrial nation that continues to debate the existence of climate change. Though climate change skeptics only represent a minority of the country, Hertsgaard says their megaphone is large. He compares them to tobacco industry lobbyists who once rejected evidence that smoking causes cancer.